(n.) Poverty; the condition of being needy\; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury.

bare cupboard bare subsistence beggarliness beggary deprivation destitution empty purse grinding poverty gripe hand-to-mouth existence homelessness impecuniousness impoverishment lack mendicancy moneylessness necessitousness necessity need neediness pauperism pauperization penury pinch privation want